[Pharo-dev] [ANN] No-Metadata mode for GitFileTree

[Thierry Goubier]

Oh yes,

I can announce that from now on, the development version of GitFileTree 
for Pharo 5 handles FileTree repositories without most of the metadata 
(precisely version and methodProperties).

This makes the format a lot more DVCS friendly (Git, Fossil, Hg, SVN, 
all...) by cutting the noise on diffs and conflicts on merge and cherry 
picking.

Note: it only apply to brand new repositories; nothing is changed for 
pre-existing ones.

Note2: reading those Metadata-less repositories with FileTree does give 
you packages without metadata: no version history, no author, no author 
nor timestamp on methods.

Note3: it is possible to hack a repo from metadata to non-metadata mode, 
but I won't explain it.

Enjoy and tell me how it works for you. I'm especially interested by 
heavy branchers/mergers reports :)

Thierry